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Overview
ADVANCE-PAID Request for Proposal (RFP)Assessing expertise and organizing a grant-writing
teamMatching campus needs/interests with RFPUnderstanding earlier ADVANCE/ADVANCE-PAID
resultsDeciding on the grant focus and team-member
responsibilitiesAttending to things NSF MUST see
‘09 ADVANCE-PAID RFP
RECENT CHANGES/SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN Research is an explicit component within PAID to support
social science research related to the study of gender in academic STEM careers.
Underrepresented minority group & those with disabilities, women with disabilities & women from underrepresented minority groups are particularly encouraged.
Primarily undergraduate institutions, teaching intensive colleges, community colleges, minority-serving institutions , women's colleges, and institutions primarily serving persons with disabilities are particularly encouraged.
‘09 ADVANCE-PAID RFP
Up to twenty (20) PAID awards of various award sizes and lengths: Adaptation and implementation of materials, tools, research, and
practice demonstrated to be effective in increasing the participation and advancement of women in STEM academic careers.
Dissemination and diffusion of materials, tools, research, and practices, to the appropriate audiences, demonstrated to be effective in increasing the participation and advancement of women in STEM academic careers. Go beyond simply making materials, tools, research, and practices available to others. Instead, teach and/or train individuals and groups how to adopt or adapt the information is expected.
Expertise on the Grant Team
Need for an interdisciplinary team:Social science research => member(s) with expertise in
issues of women &/or underrepresented minoritiesServing STEM departments => member(s) with
expertise/cachet within those departmentsSupport from administration => member(s) who
participates involved when the “wheels” are turned both on campus & in depts.
Tricky budget administration & research goals => research assistant with grant-management & research assistant skills
Identifying Campus Needs
Perform data-gathering activities to understand campus circumstances
Confer with chairs and deans, and with those who would be grant participants
Cast a wide net early on, and narrow as grant-writing proceeds
What sort of campus do you have? What makes sense here?
Understanding Earlier Work
What has been done before that seems to fill a need on your campus?
Use the NSF Web Portal (listed on important websites sheet) to review existing grants
Engage in email correspondence with PI’s of grants that interest you
Become known as people interested in these issues, join professional organization subgroups
Grant focus & refinement
Grant-management experience matters:Know what your grant activities will be, who will
attend them, and what you expect to happen because of them
Develop program evaluation/research activitiesDevelop dissemination & institutionalization activitiesBuild a matrix of tasks (more detailed than activities) &
decide at the outset who will do whatBuild a budget that covers the task analysis
Write like a reviewer reads
Write the grant in response to the RFPContext and Data know your circumstancesCommitment & Sustainability link to support lettersActivities Description link to ADVANCE findingsProject Management adequate, believable budgetProject Evaluation PAID-research grants tougher,
& linked to research literatureNSF Goals
Intellectual merit Broader impacts